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"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous N I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats N
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo N An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that N
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey N America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. N
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler N The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi N
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi N I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show N
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland N There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story N
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith N When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) N
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford N They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan N
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) N Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) N
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde N There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder N
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg N I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst What's new? Most of my wife. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale N
